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Beyond Meat: Everything Wrong With the Stock Market in One Inedible Brand

Beyond Meat: Everything Wrong With the Stock Market in One Inedible Brand

You don't need to look at fundamentals when you eye the world's most shorted, non-biotech stocks. You just need to know that central banks are pumping money into the system and when

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Garrett Baldwin
Aug 18, 2023
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Dear Fellow Expat:

No matter how long you've been with me - days or years - you probably understand by now that I detest (to put it lightly) Beyond Meat (BYND).

I cannot get on board with its products: “Plant-based meat.”

The name bothers me. It’s up there with “soy milk” – part of a never-ending war to redefine things that were once easy to understand… and downright enjoyable.

“Meat” is simple. It’s animal flesh. It’s been like that for millennia.

But then, some “green” marketers started selling us a product.

A garbage one, too…

As in… “throw that garbage in the garbage can where garbage belongs!”

Today, I want to show you that it’s not just the product that irks me.

There are four serious problems with Beyond Meat as a company trading on the public markets.

Once you see how and why this stock behaves the way it does, you’ll quickly understand that BYND is a symptom of a much bigger issue with the equity markets.

And Unhealthy Product Masquerading as Health Food

We start with the obvious.

Beyo…

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